The truth is, I'd have to put a thousand problem free rounds thru it minimum to start trusting it and look for any of the potential problems. I'd still have a little more faith in the M&P over the majority of sub $1k 1911's for a carry gun

I'll just stick with Glock for now though...

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Well, I'm at 800 problem-free rounds now with this new barrel, so we'll see how it goes.
Before the new barrel, I was skeptical. After this new barrel, I've been increasingly pleased.

Both feel really good in my hand, but I still like the Glock trigger more and I know I shoot my G34 very well and it only had 2 issues in 10k rounds... One which was ammo related, a worn recoil spring or me reading the slide or all of the above at the 6k mark and a worn out slide stop spring that kept the slide from locking back on an empty magazine on occasion. All the springs have been replaced and is good as new now, I'm also going to start replacing all of the springs every 5k just to be safe. My G19 has over 2k rounds and has had no issues...

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I like the Glock trigger pull and break more than the M&P, but I hate the little nub in the trigger on the Glock.
After shooting for long periods of time, it starts wearing down my finger tip a bit. Well, just the flesh.

I'm not as concerned about trigger as I am reliability. You can get a trigger job done on any gun, but if it's not reliable who the fuck cares.
I gave S&W one chance to make it right, and so far they've accomplished that.
If I had gotten my gun back and it was still more of the same, I probably would have just off-loaded the gun on someone else, I'm not a very patient person.

I just want to warn that the LDA double stack Para's, and Compact Para's are junk... especially the Warthog.
They do have a couple tradition SA single stack 1911's that are decent, but most of their line is just sheer crap.